When my uncle got "ten-year" (tenure!) at the university, I thought he had a job for 10 years, so I wondered why his position was secure for life (and why they didn't call it something more accurate!)
A childhood belief about speaking
others believed things like this
- My father used to call soya sauce "monkey blood". I didn't even consider tasting it for years!— Me
- I used to think that life was all a dream and one day i would wake up like a 75 year old woman.( who knows?)— 8 with wrinkles
- My mother used to call my behind "a paw paw" and for many years I refused to eat paw paws (papayas)— Garth
- My uncle told me that if I didn't wash my ears when I took a bath, corn would start going out of them.— Ebod
- I thought that 1983 went on for 3 years - had to ask my sister who decided how long a year lasted.— Sally
- I used to think that if a fly didn't bleed when it was swatted, it would come back to life.Anon